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showitem – Displays list of Items

Description

Displays to stdout a list of piped items.
Warning: This function can only be used with Shell piping. See examples below.

Syntax

<searchitem output> | showitem
or
<intopic output> | showitem
or
<notintopic output> | showitem

Examples of use

searchitem "Content LIKE \"%sigma%\"" | showitem

OR

searchitem "Content LIKE \"%sigma%\"" | intopic "proba" | notintopic "phd" "algebra" | showitem

Arguments

Exclusively a list of ItemIDs from stdin, such as the ones outputted from the searchitem, intopic and notintopic functions.

Outputs/actions

Lists the following fields content of the items given as argument:

• ItemID
• list of topics to which the Item belongs
• list of parent items
• list of children items